Archives for February 21, 2004

'"I believe that the team you're seeing now is the team we've been capable of being," noted Briere. "That's not meaning that we're going to score seven goals a night all of the time. I'm talking about the wins category, the collective play that we're displaying out there."'

'The Sabres are starting to remind me of the lovable rough-and-tumble group in 1995 that punched first and asked questions later. It wasn't a playoff team, but it was learning how to win. They have become a likable, gritty team going in the right direction for the first time in the post-Dominik Hasek era.'